Privacy Policy

This website is maintained by the National Participation Office and Foróige on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.

This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer. Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose.

We may collect the following information from each user of this site:

• statistical information (IP address and hostname, web browser version, pages visited and so on)
• the previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used 

We use this information to analyse the usage patterns of the website in order to improve the website’s effectiveness. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual.

It is our policy never to disclose such information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless explicitly stated, or obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing activities on the website, or a unique identifier so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies on comhairlenanog.ie do not contain personal information from which you can be identified.

Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth uses cookies to anonymously gather user statistics and protect against malicious attack.

If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention. You can contact the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth’s Data Protection Officer at dpocontact@equality.gov.ie or get in touch with Foróige at dataprotection@foroige.ie who maintain the site in conjunction with the National Participation Office